Category Archives: Review

Kayde made me do it! This week week we drop anchor on one of the five Barbie games available on PlayStation. Detective Barbie: The Mystery Cruise is a 2000 year release with the focus on using fingerprints to track down a random culprit. Subscribe and Join the Fun!…

Commando for the NES is a classic run and gun style game that was developed and released by Capcom in 1985. It was originally titled Senjō no Ōkami and was released on numerous platforms, including arcade, Atari, Intellivision and various other home consoles. The game would show up again in…

Tiny Toon Adventures for the NES is a action platformer that was developed and published by Konami in 1991. It is based on the cartoon series Tiny Toon Adventures, which ran from about 1990-1992. Tiny Toon Adventures was an off shoot of the Looney Toons cartoons and was centered…

The Oregon Trail is a game many of us grew up playing. They haven’t really ported the classic to home consoles so our memories were mostly reserved for when we played it at school. We can relive those magical days with this new portable, hand-held version of The…

Space Harrier for the Sega 32X console is a port of a classic arcade third person 3D shooter. Originally developed by Sega Enterprises in 1985 the game hit the arcades and was well received and praised for it’s innovative visuals and play style. The design is largely attributed…

(The 128k Ghostbusters theme) This is a topic we’ve covered before – and i suspect it’s one we’ll cover again – but it’s worth pointing out that the sunset era of the Spectrum’s life were significantly different to the micro computer’s formative years. Thanks to…

Kung-Fu Heroes for the Nintendo Entertainment System is a top down action game ported from Japanese arcade game called Super Chinese. The game was developed by Nihon Games and published in North American by Culture Brain in 1986. It was also later made available through Nintendo’s Virtual Console. …

In what I guess you could dub “Femme Fatale February”, I’m introducing a two-part look into the history of female game characters, predating the release of Tomb Raider in November of 1996. I think most people would be surprised at just how many game heroines there actually…

Montezuma’s Revenge Featuring Panama Joe is a platforming game created in 1984 and released on numerous systems around that time. It showed up on nearly every console and PC platform of the time, including (but not limited to) Atari computers and consoles, C64, ColecoVision and ZX Spectrum. The game…

I was able to play with the new Super Retro Trio Plus which can do NES, SNES and Genesis. I throw everything from licensed games to homebrew and hacks to multicarts and more at it. This video shows what did and didn’t work.

Zombies Ate My Neighbors (which I will refer to as ZAMN going forward) is a run and gun shoot-em up style game that was originally published in the year 1993 by Konami for the Super Nintendo (SNES) and the Sega Genesis (or Mega Drive). The game was developed…

Someone far smarter than I modded the popular Goldeneye for Nintendo 64 to allow you to play as character from Super Mario 64. What’s more is they even have three multiplayer levels straight from Super Mario 64. This patch is available for download for you to play in…

Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi is the 2nd game in the Shinobi series that was released on the Sega Genesis (or Mega Drive for other parts of the world). It was developed and published by Sega in 1990 and has been re-released numerous times, including on the…

I’m really torn about video games that try to be deep and tell a thought-provoking story. Video games are a unique medium. They have to worry about more than just storytelling, they have to worry about gameplay as well. This is where A LOT of indie games and…

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist is a sidescrolling arcade beat’em up for the Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) from Konami. It is based loosely on the ultra popular Ninja Turtles arcade game “Turtles in Time”, which that was itself based on the popular Saturday morning cartoon (and…

Yoshi’s Island is the first game to feature the awesome power of the Super FX 2 chip, and in this review of the original SNES version of Yoshi’s Island, find out why the Super FX 2 was not wasted on this 2D platformer.

Fuck this game. FUCK this game…. FUCK THIS BULLSHIT GAME! Ugh…. How did I get myself into this mess. As some of you may or may not know, in addition to writing blogs I run a Twitch Channel called g1 Gamedays. On this channel, several different hosts…

The Turbo-Grafx 16 hardware gets added to Pause Mode’s selection of systems to cover, and with it comes our review of the most sought after and most expensive game in the system’s history – Magical Chase.

It’s the first WWF/E video game on the Nintendo Entertainment System and in the late 80’s, it was all we had to let our Hulkamania run wild in video game form. The game is a staple and for some, the first (and only) wrestling title they’ve ever played.…

A tragedy has befallen Woodyman’s Backloggery. The word document containing my old backlog got corrupted and I lost everything. I can’t remember what games I beat or the original order… so I can’t review them. All I remember is I LOATHE EVERY CRASH BANDICOOT GAME on the PlayStation…

Oops, this appears to be 4 days late. Sorry about that… Average things can be difficult to review. When presented with a positive specimin there are praises that can be sung, with a negative specimin there are sins that can be punished . . . but…

Once again I delve into the realm of the Super Nintendo Super Scope peripheral, in this Battle Clash Review for the SNES! Could it be that I’ve finally found a Super Scope game that’s actually unique AND fun to play? Will my shoulders get tired? How big are…

When it was announced that London nightclub Fabric had lost its license back in 2016, It definitely felt like the end of an era. I can’t say i’d exactly been a regular, but i’d had enough fun nights at the club to briefly mourn its loss.…

There are so many predictable choices for games to play over Halloween, aren’t there? Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Fatal Frame, Clock Tower. . . hang on, I appear to just be listing random “survival horror” titles here, but you get my point. Let’s look at something…

As I sit in my desk chair, sipping my morning coffee trying to figure out how I’m going to write this blog… I’ve come to a realization. I have no idea what I’m doing… The main purpose of Woodyman’s Backloggery was to keep me honest and to keep…

I like this game. It is good. I still vividly remember the first time I played Ninja Gaiden. There was a little general store near my parents’ cottage that also rented movies and video games. I don’t know why we picked it, but my brother and I grabbed…

“Chrono Trigger is the greatest game of all time” Objectivity or Hyperbole? by the Well-Red Mage ““Artistic value” or “quality” in a work of art is not merely a matter of personal opinion but to a high degree a matter of common agreement among artistically sensitive and trained…